Summaries: the best textbooks for international organisations and international relations summarized

Summaries of the best textbooks for international relations and international organizations

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  • Study areas: International relations, European Union politics, Politics, HRM, Law, Economics, Financing
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International Human Resource Management

International Human Resource Management

Summary of: Ewards, T. & Kuruvilla, S. (2005). International HRM: National Business Systems, Organizational Politics, and the International Division of Labour in MNCs. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(1)

INTERNATIONAL HRM

Strategic human resource management: The RBV suggests that the firm’s human resources can be used to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. But failures by the HRM policy can turn human resources into a major source of disadvantage. Considering transaction cost economics, the decision to add one or more factory workers on the assembly line might be made using the logic of transaction cost analysis. But maybe not when we talk about skilled workers and probably even less again when we’re talking about workers core to our firm.

 

Human resource management (HRM) is a field of theory and practice that deals with decisions related to policies and practices, that together help to shape the relationship between the

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Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of International Law by Henriksen

Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of International Law by Henriksen

Summaries per chapter with the 2nd edition of International Law by Henriksen

With this book, Anders Henriksen has created a complete overview of international law. The book starts of with the basics of international law. All the important terms are discussed in detail. Comparisons are made between international and national but also EU-law.

After the explanation of the basics, different types of law are discussed. The influence of international law is made clear in this respect. The law of the sea, human rights law, environmental law and economic law all fall under international law for some part, but they differ from each other in certain aspects. What complicates this even more, is that states and international organizations also have established their own rules.

Lastly, it is discussed how international law can be enforced and what happens when it is not obeyed. The book touches on peaceful dispute settlement, use

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The Economics of European Integration (Baldwin & Wyplosz)

The Economics of European Integration (Baldwin & Wyplosz)

Summary of 'The Economics of European Integration' by Baldwin and Wyplosz. Chapters of the summary do not correspond to chapters in the book. Chapter 1 to 6 corresponds to chapter 13 to 18 of the book. At the bottom an attachment with tables and figures is linked as pdf

Chapter 1: Essential Macroeconomic Tools

Preliminaries: output and prices

It is the most commonly used measure of economic activity; Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is often called output, as

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